A survey of the summe of church-discipline : wherein the way of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the Word, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered: Whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice (1648)
Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647 · London : Printed by A. M. for John Bellamy · leaf 178
ation to their proceeding. 4>. This his fpirit doth not difpenfe the excommunicationy norgive them power to do that which they cculd not do before, butincouragcd them to go on in the work which they had formerlynegl€(Sed,and was lo necelTary to be performed. T a Chap ,._, __ II ■ . j,-r. - ^… … Efore we can propound the ftate of thecontro-verfy, in which the ftrede lyes, and addc fuchproofs as may be fiiitabe to fettle that which weconceive to be the truth, we mufl: of neceflitycrave leave to preface fomething touching thenature of Eccleftafticall power in the generall,and lay out th^…
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